Tanggula Mountains, C24, Matuo Formation (Jurassic to of China)

Where: Qinghai, China (33.0° N, 91.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 88.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Matuo Formation (Yanshiping Group), Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine

• The province represents extensive marginal marine environments ranging from nearshore shelf to restricted embayments, lagoons and freshwater lakes.
• The Matuo Fm is composed of marls, silty and fine-grained sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

• focus on bivalves

Primary reference: J. Yin and F. T. Fürsich. 1991. Middle and Upper Jurassic bivalves from the Tanggula Mountains, W-China. Beringeria, Würzburger geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen 4:127-192 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37894: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 27.03.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus (Modiolus) trigonus